27th September 2023, 3:34 PM
After watching this, I'm now convinced. The metaverse can't work. Not only can it not work under capitalism (what a dystopian nightmare it would be when "jumping" has to be paid for), but we can't like... actually live there. In a very real sense, it's impossible to "live" in the metaverse, or anywhere online. We do things online. Those things are real, but we're still out here in the really real world where physics and biology and toilets are. Short of full brain uploading, it isn't happening.
(And, as an aside, full brain uploading very much seems impossible, not just under current technology but in all future conceivable technologies, from what I've learned talking to biologists who know a thing or two about it. Our brains are very fragile and any means of fully "reading" it would necessarily be completely and utterly destructive down beyond the cellular level. There is no "jack input" that would just feed the whole state of the brain through one point. Further, attempts to read one half of the brain would render the other half useless as far as data reading is concerned. Hoping for brain uploading seems about as silly a notion as hoping for faster than light travel... perhaps even more so. If we want a future of invincible immortal robots, our best bet is to think of them as a successor species, post-human, and just wish them the best of luck without us.)
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)